Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 2 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 3 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 4 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 5 | Teachers have to note and keep records on individual pupils ' state of knowledge with respect to all the criteria in a scheme . |
| 6 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
| 7 | The columns displaying prices of licensed dealers ' stocks in the national newspapers did not always appear to be the paid advertising they actually were . |
| 8 | Seeing patients in general practitioners ' surgeries is no different from seeing patients in private consulting rooms — a practice that fails to provoke outrage among dermatologists . |
| 9 | A much more useful and realistic approach is to study recordings of different speakers ' natural , spontaneous speech and try to make generalisations about attitudes and intonation on this basis . |
| 10 | The present aerospace boom will provide the Japanese with opportunities to build parts of other peoples ' airliners . |
| 11 | One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach . |
| 12 | On April 3 the People 's Revolutionary Struggle ( ELA ) and the May 1 group jointly claimed responsibility for an explosion outside UN offices and for placing bombs under European diplomats ' cars . |
| 13 | Also known as ‘ coblyns ’ or ‘ coblynau ’ , Cornishmen have long left pieces of traditional miners ' fare — the Cornish pastie — for the knockers to eat . |
| 14 | ( 11 ) To transfer proceedings to another magistrates ' court or to a county court . |
| 15 | Edinburgh graduates have risen rapidly to the top of their profession , obtaining partnerships in consulting engineers ' design offices , senior posts in local authority offices , directorships of civil engineering contractors and university chairs . |
| 16 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 17 | ( b ) To link schools into other schools ' good practice . |
| 18 | an extension of their remit to ‘ initiate and facilitate staff development programmes ’ ( NARE 1985 ) ; i.e. of crossing boundaries into other colleagues ' territory . |
| 19 | Section 26 gives the Commission power to undertake studies designed to enable it to make recommendations for improving authorities ' ‘ economy , efficiency and effectiveness ’ . |